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  1. Ray Bradbury _ Dandelion Wine

    The phone was laid on a desk thousands of miles away. Once more, with that clear familiarity, the footsteps, the pause, and, at last, the raising of the window. "Listen," whispered the old man to himself. And he heard a thousand people in another sunlight, and the faint, tinkling music of an organ grinder playing "La Marimba"- oh, a lovely, dancing tune. With eyes tight, the old man put up his hand as if to click pictures of an old cathedral, and his body was heavier with flesh, younger, and he felt the hot pavement underfoot. He wanted to say, "You're still there, aren't you? All of: you people in that city in the time of the early siesta, the shops closing, the little boys crying loteria nacional para hoy! to sell lottery tickets. You are all there, the people in the city. I can't believe I was ever among you. When you are away I: from a city it becomes a fantasy. Any town, New York, Chicago, with its people, becomes improbable with distance. Just as I am improbable here, in Illinois, in a small town by a ' quiet lake. All of us improbable to one another because we are not present to one another. And it is so good to hear the sounds, and know that Mexico City is still there and the people moving and living . . .
    book-quotetimenostalgiaphone

  2. Douglas Adams _ The Restaurant at the End of

    The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time {or indeed at all} was six phones that didn't ring all the time {or indeed at all}.
    book-quotequietphoneintrusion

  3. Jeffrey Eugenides _ The Virgin Suicides

    He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear.
    book-quotelovephoneteenager

  4. Rebecca McNutt _ Listen is Silent, or The

    She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a prisoner on one side and an outsider on the other. There is a teenage girl chatting with a prisoner who is presumably her father. There's a married couple talking to their daughter. There's a woman with a baby in her arms, sobbing into her phone as she begs her husband not to plead guilty for his crimes. Jail is terrifying to Geraldine, not only because it's a house of criminals but also because it's a cold slap in the face, a reminder of where she will eventually end up. "You've got to stay with me the whole time, Callo! I'm serious, you CANNOT leave me here.""I'll never," Callo vows, but he's eyeing her strangely. "Just remember which side of the glass you're on right now, Geraldine.
    book-quotestrangehusbanddaughter

  5. Rebecca McNutt _ Smog City

    Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a screen, they'd likely text with their last breath.
    book-quotesadfuturedepressing

  6. Rebecca McNutt _ Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog

    Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone," her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ring. "Where've you been, what've you been up to?""Mom, do you remember when I was a kid, I had a friend, he was a Personification of the Sydney Tar Ponds, sort of my imaginary friend?" Mandy asked."No, what in the name of god are you on about?" her mom sighed in exasperation."Remember? Only I could see him, but he was real and he was my best friend when I was eighteen?" Mandy insisted."No, I don't remember Alecto Sydney Steele at all," said her mom all too quickly.
    book-quoteinvisiblemotherremember

  7. Jim Thompson _ The Nothing Man

    The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.
    book-quotenightphonenoir

  8. Kelley Armstrong _ Belonging

    Something hit the floor with a crack. Nate turned and looked down to see his cell phone on the floor. He patted his back pockets, as if to be sure it was his, then swore and reached down. The phone slid across the floor. he muttered.It slid faster now, scraping and bumping along. Nate growled. As he took off after the phone, I looked out the bathroom door to see it rise a foot off the ground, then fall with a crack.Nate swore and picked up speed, loping down the hall, muttering.
    book-quotephoneprank

  9. Ben Elton _ Blast from the Past

    When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news.
    book-quotephone
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